HEALTHY WORKPLACES GOOD PRACTICE AWARDS CEREMONY

Maria Luisa Cabral was born in 1972. She is Portuguese and the mother of 4 children.

She joined the European Commission in 2004, leaving behind a career in the Portuguese public administration. She has held several management positions in different departments across the
European Commission. In July 2019, she joined the transition team of the then candidate for President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. From December 2019 to February
2024, she was the Skills and Social Adviser of President von der Leyen. Since mid-February 2024, she has been a Director in the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion,
responsible for working conditions and social dialogue.

She has a degree in Political Sciences, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a post-degree in European Studies, from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão of the Universidade Técnica of
Lisbon.

Oscar Molina is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), researcher at the Centre for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT) and director of the Institute for Labour Studies (IET) at the UAB. He holds a degree in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra University and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Prior to joining the UAB, he was a postdoctoral researcher for the Irish government in the Industrial Relations and Human Resources Group at University College Dublin (2005-2007) and an ICREA junior researcher at QUIT.

His research focuses on the comparative analysis of industrial relations and collective bargaining, trade unions, labour markets and comparative political economy with a particular focus on Mediterranean capitalism. Recently, his research has been focusing on the impact of the extension of AI on employment relations and coordinating the TRANSVEC project on the just transition in the electric vehicle. He has coordinated several European projects and has worked as an external collaborator for the ILO and the European Commission. He coordinates Eurofound's team of national correspondents in Spain. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the European Journal of Industrial Relations and Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research.